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A Message to Investors of Axiom Legal Financing Fund

November 06, 2012 - The bad news is you have been defrauded of your investment in Axiom Legal Financing Fund. The sooner you accept this, the quicker you can start taking steps to recover some of your losses. The good news is that the
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Fraudster Tim Schools turns to a reprobate's best friend - British libel law

November 22, 2012 - Today's libel complaint by Axiom Legal Financing Fund fraudster Timothy Schools against me and OffshoreAlert at the U.K. High Court is as predictable as it is ineffective. In 2010, U. S. President Barack Obama signed into law The SPEECH Act,
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Axiom Legal Financing Fund: Time for investors to take control

November 15, 2012 - In their most recent letter to investors dated November 14, Axiom Legal Financing Fund's directors stated that an Extraordinary General Meeting will be held in December so that they can "present proposals regarding the continued management of the Fund". In
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Axiom Fund: Investors making one mistake after another

December 17, 2012 - Investors in Axiom Legal Financing Fund have until Wednesday to try to block the appointment of KPMG's Kris Beighton and John Milsom as Receivers. Once KPMG is ensconced, it will be extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to have them removed. For
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Axiom Legal Financing Fund: The Lunacy Continues

November 20, 2012 - In a letter to investors today, Axiom's directors stated that "We would encourage any party who has evidence as to wrongdoing with respect to the Fund to provide that information to the appropriate authorities." Yet, over three weeks ago, OffshoreAlert
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McKeeva Bush Corruption Investigation: Time for US to step in

April 02, 2012 - The two year corruption investigation by the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service into the jurisdiction's Premier, McKeeva Bush, is turning into the sort of incompetent, expensive fiasco that the Cayman Islands and its mother country, the United Kingdom, are known
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Hey, Bahamas: Where's the justice for Hywel Jones?

September 18, 2011 - Nearly two-and-a-half years after the assassination of offshore finance executive Hywel Jones, a British national, in the Bahamas, the person who is widely believed to have ordered the hit – well-connected, former politician Lester Turnquest – has still not been charged. This comes as no surprise to me. Just a
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On Bradley Birkenfeld’s $104 Million Whistleblower Award

October 12, 2012 - I first met Bradley Birkenfeld on October 12, 2007.  By law, the only thing I can say about that meeting and what followed is what has been included in the declarations I filed in federal court in support of the IRS petition seeking permission to issue a John Doe summons to UBS AG of Switzerland and the subsequent
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Cayman's McKeeva Bush Problem

November 25, 2011 - The Royal Cayman Islands Police, which has been conducting a corruption investigation into Cayman Premier McKeeva Bush for nearly two years, has a dilemma. Even if there is sufficient evidence to warrant charges – should they be brought?
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Corruption is not an offshore/onshore issue: it's everyone’s business, period

August 13, 2011 - The focus of international self regenerationists (UN, World Bank, OECD et al) is moving to corruption. These and their brethren agencies have well grazed the grasslands of narcotics, money laundering, terrorism and tax evasion. So to continue their existence, they need to find pastures new to feast on. Otherwise, they
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On Correspondent Bank Accounts ... the Achilles Heel of Offshore Banking
Dan Reeves
  If you blinked, you probably missed the news.  On January 29, 2013, a federal judge sitting in New York City authorized the IRS to issue a John Doe summons to UBS AG in Stamford, Connecticut for the correspondent bank records of Wegelin Bank of Switzerland and at least two other Swiss banks that nested their